AWS Backup vs Commvault Cloud comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Commvault are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.0, while Commvault is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.7. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 3.5% mindshare in CB, compared to Commvault’s 10.3% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Commvault users who would recommend it.

AWS Backup

Read 26 AWS Backup reviews

2,921 Views
2,459 Comparison Views

87% willing to recommend

Commvault Cloud

Read 109 Commvault Cloud reviews

13,076 Views
7,592 Comparison Views

95% willing to recommend

AWS Backup

Commvault Cloud

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Commvault Cloud and AWS Backup are competitors in the data protection and backup market. Commvault Cloud appears to have an advantage with its extensive feature set and support for both on-premises and cloud environments, while AWS Backup is more appreciated for its seamless integration and ease of use with AWS services but lacks advanced functionalities.

Features: Commvault Cloud is known for its global deduplication, flexible data flows, and its ability to manage on-premises and cloud environments under one solution. It supports a wide range of platforms and applications, making it versatile for various business needs. AWS Backup is valued for its simple integration and operation within AWS, providing basic backup services efficiently and effectively in AWS environments.

Room for Improvement: Commvault Cloud's complexity may hinder user experience, with improvements needed in its interface and cloud integration features. It also requires better documentation and significant resources for implementation. AWS Backup could enhance its advanced functionality offerings, such as comprehensive database backups, and improve support for hybrid cloud environments to increase its versatility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Commvault Cloud provides deployment flexibility across on-premises, private, and public clouds, catering to users with multi-cloud needs. It is supported by a strong network but could benefit from improved localization. AWS Backup is noted for seamless deployment within AWS, although it lacks on-premises and hybrid cloud capabilities. Both solutions receive positive feedback for responsive customer support, with AWS Backup highly regarded for quick service in cloud environments.

Pricing and ROI: Commvault Cloud is seen as a premium option with a higher upfront cost but offers long-term savings via efficient resource management and reduced complexity, with flexible pricing models tailored to business needs. AWS Backup offers predictable, transparent, pay-as-you-go pricing, which is appealing to SMEs. However, it may lack comprehensive cost-saving features found in Commvault, limiting its attraction for data-intensive environments.

To learn more, read our detailed AWS Backup vs. Commvault Cloud Report (Updated: February 2025).

Buyer's Guide

AWS Backup vs. Commvault Cloud

February 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 842,161 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

AWS Backup

Ranking in Cloud Backup

11th

Ranking in SaaS Backup

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Commvault Cloud

Ranking in Cloud Backup

3rd

Ranking in SaaS Backup

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

109

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (3rd), eDiscovery (3rd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd), File Archiving (2nd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (3rd), Threat Deception Platforms (1st), Container Backup Software (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of AWS Backup is 3.5%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 10.3%, up from 8.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Backup

Featured Reviews

MuhammadAzhar Khan

Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group

Simplify compliance and management of multiple backups with centralized cloud solutions

AWS Backup could benefit from including more services. Currently, it only includes around ten services, while AWS offers over three hundred plus services. Also, it would be helpful if AWS Backup could integrate logs more thoroughly. This would allow not only new users but also experienced users to more easily check logs directly from AWS Backup.

Read full review

Cassandra Cinar

Senior Director Data Center Services at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Provides excellent visibility and helps reduce costs and time

We use intuitive administrative tools that readily reveal the volume of backed-up data. Our Commvault CommCell servers alert us to failed backups and provide detailed information. This transparency allows our managed service provider to easily grasp our pre-established thresholds and readily scale up with new technologies. We're highly satisfied with Commvault's automated data security and management policies. They meet our stringent requirements for secure and private data storage, including anti-ransomware protection and encryption. Notably, they also ensure compliance with GDPR for backups stored in Europe and other regions, fulfilling our regulatory obligations. Threat Scan's ability to scan backup data for threats is invaluable because it proactively identifies and neutralizes certain viruses and threats that may originate from our G Suite or be reported by our security incident response team, preventing potential outages. Commvault provides excellent visibility across our entire organization's data. They perform regular health checks, informing us of areas of strength and offering recommendations for improvement. These recommendations may include upgrading to newer product versions or addressing issues identified during the checks. It is important for our organization that Commvault provides a unified platform for recovery across cloud, on-premises, and software-as-a-service workloads. This is particularly important because many of our existing cloud environments rely on basic backups that are insufficient for our needs. Commvault empowers us to address this issue. We have implemented it not only in our own operating company but also across the corporate structure, rolling it out to virtually all AWS users. This is because the standard backup methods, such as snapshot backups, fail to meet our stringent requirements for recovery, service level agreements, and crucial functionalities like threat detection and other security features. Commvault ensures a robust and comprehensive backup infrastructure that satisfies all our essential needs. It has improved our organization by ensuring we meet our infrastructure requirements, adhere to our vulnerability methodology, and achieve service level agreements for both backup and storage requirements. The quarterly risk analysis allows us to effectively manage the lifecycle of both data and backups. It also sheds light on the types of data and backups we have, providing valuable insights. Commvault's risk analysis is one of the tools we use to meet our compliance requirements and implement the necessary controls for immediate security policy action. To ensure comprehensive data protection and comply with international regulations like GDPR, we rely on Commvault alongside our established financial systems and SOC-compliant practices. Commvault has helped us reduce our organization's data management costs by 75 percent, particularly for long-term backups. We ditched tapes and virtual tapes thanks to Commvault, replacing them with a fully disk-based backup system and cloud backups in AWS and Azure. By implementing Commvault, we've significantly reduced our backup times. This is achieved through a combination of incremental backups and data aging. Aged data is then moved to cheaper disk or cloud storage, ensuring cost-effective long-term retention while still meeting our recovery SLAs. While the overall time savings may be around 10-15 percent, the main benefit is not keeping everything on expensive primary storage and efficiently aging it out. Consequently, retrieving data from the Azure bucket typically takes five days or more, reflecting our agreed-upon SLA. It has reduced our recovery point objective, allowing us to store more backups. However, new regulatory and compliance requirements mandate that some backups cannot be deleted and must be retained indefinitely. To address this while still improving efficiency, we've implemented solutions for long-term data storage and improved data management practices. Commvault has helped our organization not only decrease our threat detection time but also improve threat prevention to such an extent that we often avoid facing the full impact of a threat altogether. By preventing these incidents, we're often unsure of the precise amount of time saved, but the benefit is clear: we don't need to activate disaster recovery mechanisms. It has not only helped us reduce our recovery time objective, but it has also ensured that our backups and long-term storage are secure, thanks to its comprehensive capabilities. In terms of total cost of ownership, Commvault has enabled us to significantly reduce both hardware and media costs for storage and backup. After factoring in encryption and compression, the total savings amount to close to 80 percent. It has been able to reduce downtime, but having a quick recovery plan and policy and SLAs that are published are met regularly.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The customer service is top-notch, rated ten out of ten."

"AWS Backup's most valuable feature is that you can configure it remotely to create backups."

"The most valuable feature is its ease of use."

"RDS backup is one of the most crucial components of any client's cloud environment, so we generally use that. Additionally, we store EBS snapshots in S3."

"The most valuable feature is the daily incremental site backup."

"The most valuable features of AWS Backup are point-in-time recovery and support resources."

"It works well as a backup and as a service."

"Reporting is one of the key elements that are valuable for C-suite executives. In terms of monitoring, the solution provides comprehensive details into ongoing processes, flagging issues and warnings as necessary."

More AWS Backup pros

"Commvault helps to ensure broad coverage with the discovery of unprotected workloads. This is important. From the moment that we set it up, we mostly have customers telling us what they need to back up. Then, you can list the machines that are not yet protected. Sometimes, we can see that they are unaware of this, and say, "We didn't know that those servers were not protected yet," or "We did not back them up yet.""

"The backup and restore capabilities are key. The most useful things to us about Commvault, in general, is the breadth of the applications that it can protect as well as the features inside of it, like deduplication and encryption. When people get their data encrypted, Commvault has a way to tell if somebody is being attacked through a cybersecurity threat because their data changes. So, Commvault has what they call honeypot files out there to look to see if anybody is changing these files. Only Commvault knows which files those are, so nobody should be messing with those files. If it changes, then it will alert you to say, "Oh, I potentially have somebody messing with my files." It will alert you to something going on in your environment that probably shouldn't be happening. We deploy that with all our customers so they have this capability as well."

"Global deduplication and the indexing of the data object are the most valuable features. It saves costs on the product side by doing compression and deduplication. It will help you and make your life easy to reach the data that you need within the minimum downtime when it's required."

"It's a complete software that can protect all the main applications. Perhaps that's the feature I like most. The integration with the NetApp and other apps is also very nice."

"The user interface is very easy to navigate."

"The solution is easy to use and the duplication is quite good."

"The product alerts the security team about threats."

"Metallic helped me to restore the data within an hour, which is much faster than restoring from Microsoft services."

More Commvault Cloud pros

Cons

"It could be less expensive."

"The tool is a good fit if your environment is VM-specific. However, it might not be the most suitable option if you have physical servers or an on-premise setup."

"There are some limitations to partial backup in AWS Backup."

"AWS Backup could benefit from including more services."

"When it comes to encrypting data, it is not so convenient."

"This backup tool does the full backup of the entire snapshot server. I would like to have the option to not do the full server backup."

"To create a plan and for all the configuration, one has to do multiple steps, which could be organized in a much simpler way, making the user experience better."

"The notifications on the backup and on the mobile app could be more useful. If they could arrange notes or notifications properly and offer services for managing it in our region, it would be helpful for us."

More AWS Backup cons

"Commvault Complete Data Protection meets market standards, but an area for improvement is its licensing model. It would be good if it could use the subscription-based model rather than the traditional licensing model."

"Its dashboard could be improved to provide a summarized version of all the jobs instead of having to go through each one of them. We should easily be able to glance at all issues. If I had not gone with the on-premise version, I would have had regular reports with the cloud version. It would be an advantage if they increase the compression rate of the backup. I am keeping it on-prem, so I'll need more disks depending on the policies that I have in the retention period. Its price could also be lower. If a good solution can be cheaper, it is always an advantage."

"The speed of the Office 365 Backup & Recovery feature is adequate. Microsoft controls the amount of bandwidth that people have when they're using Azure and the O365 environment... If they could work out something with Microsoft to improve the speed, that would help."

"The product's migration process and stability need improvement."

"We previously had difficulty with the support being foreign."

"They need to improve when it comes to large, video file archiving. They're good, but they have not met my expectations as a customer in this area."

"Commvault Complete Data Protection would benefit from improving their training resources."

"The most common feedback I get in terms of Commvault is that it can be complex. I always refer my customers back to their own environment. Almost everything that goes into Commvault is a request by a customer. While it can be complex, it can also be very simple. You just need to understand your environment in order to make sure that you really need to turn on that extra feature or thing inside of Commvault. Maybe you don't need those things. It really depends on how simple or complex your environment is, whether you need all of Commvault's features."

More Commvault Cloud cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The clients pay for the whole AWS bundle. It is an affordable solution."

"Its price is much cheaper than some vendors but more expensive than others."

"The pricing is decent."

"The product is inexpensive."

"It's a myth that Cloud is cheap. Cloud is cheap initially, but the cost over time can be equal to your own infrastructure if you consume a lot."

"The pricing is okay."

"Our customers pay a monthly AWS fee that includes the AWS Backup service."

"AWS is more expensive than some competitors like Azure."

More AWS Backup pricing and cost advice

"It is a little too high. I would like to get more of a consumption model or more of a periodic true-up type of model that is more friendly to the ups and downs that you may have in your data instead of locking into multi-year agreements."

"We like that there is no extra cost for SharePoint, Teams, or OneDrive. It is all mimicking Microsoft's model. Every user has one terabyte of space. When users start using OneDrive, everybody has one terabyte that will be backed up included in the price."

"Hands down, Metallic provides us with more predictable costs for our backup requirements. You are getting what you pay for. If they are charging you X amount of dollars at that point, that is what you are going to pay. So far, I have not seen any hidden costs or any kind of gotchas. It is pretty cut-and-dry. They will let you know, "Hey, you are going to use our storage and it will cost you this much. You are going to use your storage, then we are going to charge you this much to backup.""

"The solution is highly-priced."

"The cost for Commvault is very expensive, even support is very expensive. The full cost of the solution is 50,000 INR per year, which includes 20 VM backups, server data backup, and 200 desktop and laptop agent licenses."

"There is a bit of cost involved with signing up the entire solution. It's not a cheap solution."

"The pricing is fairly in line with the other products we've compared it with recently. We do spend more on it than we did in our Backup Exec days, but it's fairly competitive with some of the other best-in-class data protection platforms."

"I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten."

More Commvault Cloud pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Cloud Backup solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

842,161 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS Backup?

The solution's most valuable features are its backup capability and tight integration with other AWS services.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Backup?

AWS Backup operates on a pay-as-you-go model without requiring a license.

See all answers

What needs improvement with AWS Backup?

There are multiple enhancements needed in terms of compatibility with all database services, as AWS Backup is currently limited to specific ones.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Commvault?

The tool is affordable. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. Implementation requires additional costs because we need Commvault Professional Services.

See all answers

What needs improvement with Commvault?

Data center backup must be improved. We also want the product to provide us with a cloud-based backup. If we use Microsoft Exchange Online for email services, we want to know how to get a backup in...

See all answers

What do you like most about Commvault Complete Data Protection?

IntelliSnap and file system backups are valuable features.

See all answers

Comparisons

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs AWS Backup

Compared 22% of the time

Veeam Data Platform vs AWS Backup

Compared 14% of the time

Rubrik Go vs AWS Backup

Compared 8% of the time

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud vs AWS Backup

Compared 6% of the time

Rubrik vs AWS Backup

Compared 5% of the time

More AWS Backup Competitors

Rubrik vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 18% of the time

Veeam Data Platform vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 12% of the time

Zerto vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 5% of the time

Cohesity DataProtect vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 5% of the time

Azure Backup vs Commvault Cloud

Compared 4% of the time

More Commvault Cloud Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

AWS Backup

March 2025

Download AWS Backup product report

Buyer's Guide

Commvault Cloud

March 2025

Download Commvault Cloud product report

Also Known As

No data available

Commvault Complete Data Protection, Commvault Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale X, Metallic, ThreatWise

Overview

AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of data across AWS services. With AWS Backup, you can create backup policies, define backup schedules, and manage backups across multiple AWS accounts and regions from a single console. It supports a wide range of AWS services, including Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and more.

AWS Backup provides a simple and cost-effective solution for protecting your data and ensuring business continuity. It offers features like cross-region replication, incremental backups, and point-in-time recovery. With AWS Backup, you can easily restore your data to any point in time and recover from accidental deletions or data corruption.

It also provides a centralized view of your backup activity, allowing you to monitor and manage backups across your entire AWS infrastructure. AWS Backup is designed to be highly durable and secure, with data encrypted at rest and in transit. It integrates with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for fine-grained access control and supports compliance with various industry standards and regulations.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Commvault Cloud is the ultimate cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of the hybrid
enterprise. Beyond its core functionality of data backup and recovery across diverse workloads, including applications, databases, virtual machines, and files, Commvault Cloud stands out as a robust defense against ransomware. Going beyond backup, the platform integrates advanced data security features such as encryption, access control, and threat detection, safeguarding against unauthorized access and cyber threats.

With tools for data management, classification, and migration, businesses can optimize storage costs, enhance accessibility, and comply with regulations seamlessly. Boasting cloud integration with major providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, Commvault Cloud leverages the scalability and flexibility of the cloud for comprehensive data protection and management. The platform's automation capabilities streamline tasks, and its reporting and analytics features provide valuable insights into data usage, potential risks, and optimization strategies. Commvault Cloud is not just a security tool; it is a key component of cyber resilience, enabling organizations to not only protect against cyberattacks but also recover swiftly and minimize the impact of incidents. Elevate your cyber resilience strategy with Commvault Cloud.

Commvault

Sample Customers

TransferWise

Aberdeenshire Council, Acxiom, BAM Group Ireland, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, CI Investments, Clifford Chance, American Municipal Power, American Pacific Mortgage, AstraZeneca, Dongbu Steel, Denver Health, Dow Jones, Emirates Steel, Penn State Health, Prime Healthcare, Sonic Healthcare, Sony Network Communications, TiVO, UCONN Health, The Weitz Company

Buyer's Guide

AWS Backup vs. Commvault Cloud

February 2025

Free Report: AWS Backup vs. Commvault Cloud

Find out what your peers are saying about AWS Backup vs. Commvault Cloud and other solutions. Updated: February 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

842,161 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our AWS Backup vs. Commvault Cloud report.

See our list of best Cloud Backup vendors and best SaaS Backup vendors.

We monitor all Cloud Backup reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.